I have a feeling that nostalgia has a lot to do with this, but for me I find revisiting old PS2 first-person shooters to be kind of relaxing and refreshing. Most of them aren't particularly challenging, and they tended to be designed in a pretty straightforward manner. Normally I find the linear, bombastic first-person shooters of today to be mind-numbing and uninspired, but for some reason PS2 shooters don't strike me that way when I play them now. Instead I'm focused more on what they were able to achieve, presentation-wise, on the PS2 hardware, and I can just work my way through them without a critical eye.
Black really pushed the PS2 to its limits while offering up some pretty satisfying gunplay.
Part of it is probably because I'm placing myself into the mindset that I was in back when I played these games for the first time as an impressionable teenager who wasn't burnt out on FPS and excitedly dove into each new attempt at the genre on the PS2. That's why I say that nostalgia must have something to do with how forgiving I am of these old shooters because I doubt a young person of today would find much of value within them. After all, first-person shooters typically lean on their presentation above all else to leave an impression, so they tend to be a genre that ages poorly over time.
This grenade launcher was the perfect weapon to put Red Faction II's environmental destruction engine to the test.
What do you all think? Do you find it relaxing and sort of refreshing to revisit PS2 shooters like these?
Black really pushed the PS2 to its limits while offering up some pretty satisfying gunplay.
Part of it is probably because I'm placing myself into the mindset that I was in back when I played these games for the first time as an impressionable teenager who wasn't burnt out on FPS and excitedly dove into each new attempt at the genre on the PS2. That's why I say that nostalgia must have something to do with how forgiving I am of these old shooters because I doubt a young person of today would find much of value within them. After all, first-person shooters typically lean on their presentation above all else to leave an impression, so they tend to be a genre that ages poorly over time.
This grenade launcher was the perfect weapon to put Red Faction II's environmental destruction engine to the test.
What do you all think? Do you find it relaxing and sort of refreshing to revisit PS2 shooters like these?
- Red Faction 1 and 2
- Black
- Killzone
- Medal of Honor: Frontline
- TimeSplitters 2 and Future Perfect
- Cold Winter
